Belonging
Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong? My books are about the lives of “ordinary women” and most of us have experienced the sense…
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Summer Love
In the summer of 1995, Ariel, Wyatt, Sheila and Nick come to Nantucket to work for the summer. They’ve just graduated from college and the…
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Surfside Sisters
Hello, everyone! I can’t stay away from themes involving sisters! Keely Green thinks of Isabelle Maxwell as her sister. They both live on Nantucket, they…
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Nantucket Sisters
I just returned from my annual eye exam and nothing has changed, everything’s fine, so I came home and celebrated by enjoying four enormous truffles…
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Island Girls
Yes, it’s still January, and here on Nantucket the temperature is 20 degrees! The weather is telling us to curl up on a couch or…
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Beachcombers
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you all had a happy, busy holiday season. I love this time of year, when I can curl up with…
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Book Club Kit: The Summer We Started Over
Hello, You Fabulous People! Yes, it is I, Dinah Lavender, author of over one hundred delicious romance novels, and here Iam, sharing all my secrets…
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Happy Spring, Everyone!
In my new novel, THE SUMMER WE STARTED OVER, Barrett Grant opens a shop on Nantucket. It’s named Nantucket Blues, and everything in her shop…
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The Summer We Started Over Pre-order Special
Pre-order The Summer We Started Over from Nantucket Book Partners and get an autographed copy, a blue notebook, and a Daffodil bookmark!
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All the Days of Summer Book Club Sweepstakes
Enter for a chance to win! Keep all the lovely days of summer going into fall with a book club selection that will sweep you…
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All the Days of Summer Out Now
Tim Ehrenberg Reviews the book for N Magazine The release of a new Nancy Thayer novel is like the daffodils or cherry blossoms you’ll notice…
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Nantucket Christmas Books Autographed Gift Set
Dear Readers, I keep telling myself it’s too early to think about Christmas gifts, but over the past week, I’ve found myself drifting helplessly to…
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All the Days of Summer Cover Reveal
I hope you all had a great summer and read a lot of wonderful books! On Nantucket, we had a hot summer and no rain. It…
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Let It Snow is now a Hallmark Christmas Movie!
Step into Let it Snow with “Nantucket Noel” on the Hallmark Channel.
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SUMMER HOUSE
Some of my favorite people live in SUMMER HOUSE. Nona, the grandmother, is the best. She’s sweet but shrewd, loving but alert, and her history…
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SUMMER BREEZE
My novel Summer Breeze was inspired by the area around Lake Wyola in western Massachusetts. So many people I love live there. Plus, the mountains,…
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My Team Behind Girls of Summer!
Isn’t my new book beautiful? So many people help me with so many parts of it, and I thought you might like to meet some…
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Mother & Malapropisms
My mother Jane was super smart. She taught school and worked in the development office of a hospital. But she had the habit of getting…
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Nantucket Weddings!
Nantucket is the perfect venue for weddings, and Katie Kaizer is the perfect photographer for romantic shots, so today’s post will be all Katie Kaizer….
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Surfside Sisters Inspirations!
My sister! My daughter! My wonderful four who were there from the start! My wonderful Nantucket five or is it six sisters! XOXOXOXOXOXO To you…
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My Inspiration for Surfside Sisters
There aren’t many Victorian houses on Nantucket but this is like the Maxwell house Surfside on a stormy day. I’m in heaven, although windblown. And…
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Happy Valentines Day!
So to continue my saga, after I wrote Nell, I married Charley! Then I wrote a book about a woman finding her home on this…
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Remember NELL!
I spoke last week on my blog about where I was when I wrote NELL. The month when I rented the cottage in Nantucket with…
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Times change and so do the toys (and hairdos)!
It always amazes me when I look back at old photos and see how much time changes everything from hairstyles to the toys that our…
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BOOK SIGNINGS!
It’s almost time for me to pack my bags, take a ride on the ferry, and attend some book signings and talks! Sometimes I go…
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EVENTS!
EVENTS 2018 April 3, Tuesday A Nantucket Wedding Pub Date! Prosecco Celebration at Mitchell’s Book Corner Friday, April 6th, 5:30-7:00 Pretzels…
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A VERY NANTUCKET CHRISTMAS
This is my favorite month of the year! I love wrapping presents. And seeing Santa arrive by Coast Guard on Christmas Stroll, And…
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MY OTHER HOME
Several times a year, I leave the island and drive out to the middle of Massachusetts, near Amherst, where my daughter and her family…
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Frisco Library!
How cute is this centerpiece for the Private Reception before my talk at the Frisco Library in Dallas, Texas! What fun to sit and chat…
